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Sent by the CIA to 1950s Cuba to eliminate young revolutionary Fidel Castro, ex-Marine hero Earl Swagger finds himself confronting outdated ideals about honor and duty as the world around him erupts into early Cold War violence. Reprint.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and unpretentious.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Stephen Hunter
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 443
- Publisher
- Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged Lib Ed, Century, Arrow Books Ltd
- Editions
- 24
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781593352479
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